hepatic artery aneurysms are rare but potentially life threatening. we describe a novel case of a successful endovascular coil embolization of a huge hepatic artery aneurysm. a 67-year-old woman presented with recent abdominal pain that had begun from 2 weeks before referring to our hospital. sonographic and computerized tomographic (ct) findings revealed a huge hepatic artery aneurysm with 95 ...

ANEURYSM of the abdominal aorta is a rare finding. Osler' reported 11 instances of abdominal aneurysm out of 2200 necropsies performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Later, at the same institution, he found 16 cases of abdominal aortic aneurysm among 18,000 necropsies. The first case, according to Osler, was reported by Vesalius in 1567. Rupture is the characteristic course of the disease. Most...

Only a few cases of endoleak following conventional abdominal aortic aneurysm repair have been reported. We treated a patient with a type I endoleak-like phenomenon occuring 12 years after conventional abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Computed tomography demonstrated dilation of the surgically replaced, once-shrunken aneurysm sac to a diameter of 3.5 cm. Thrombus was identified between the gra...

phy. There was, therefore, a real increase in the incidIntroduction ence of abdominal aortic aneurysms. Smoking could be one of the risk factors. Auerbach [2] noted eight Acquired abdominal aortic aneurysms classically are times more abdominal aortic aneurysms in smokers characterized anatomically by an unparallelism of the than in non-smokers. Abdominal aortic aneurysms are aorta edges, result...

A73-year-old woman who had been losing weight progressively (26 kg) over a period of 6 months came to our hospital after experiencing growing abdominal pain for 2 weeks. A CT of the abdomen revealed a 6-cm infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm surrounded by a contrast-enhancing mantel (Figure 1). Her C-reactive protein value was 4.3 mg/dL. Other laboratory tests revealed no specific findings. Th...

acute aortic dissection (aad) is the most frequent catastrophic event of the aorta; it occurs nearly three times as frequently as the rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm . sixty percent of dissection cases are classified as proximal or type a and 40% as distal or type b, according to the stanford classification. the most frequent causes of death in acute type b dissection are aortic rupture an...

Most abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are asymptomatic, not detectable on physical examination, and silent until discovered during radiologic testing for other reasons. Tobacco use, hypertension, a family history of AAA, and male sex are clinical risk factors for the development of an aneurysm. Ultrasound, the preferred method of screening, is cost-effective in high-risk patients. Repair is in...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms occur in up to 9% of adults older than 65 years of age, and the rupture of these aneurysms accounts for about 15,000 deaths in the United States annually.1 Approximately 33,000 patients undergo repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms each year, with associated illness, death, and health care costs. Smoking is a major risk factor. Although aggressive management of hyperte...

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a true aneurysm, meaning a localized dilation of the aorta caused by weakening of its wall, and involving all three layers (intima, media, and adventitia) of the arterial wall (Fig. 86-1). A false aneurysm, or pseudoaneurysm, is a collection of flowing blood that communicates with the arterial lumen but is not enclosed by the normal vessel wall; it is containe...